FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for March 05, 2011
March 04, 2011
March 07, 2011
Transcript:
Man: Excuse me, girls? I noticed you taking that CD out of your purse and returning it to the shelf back in that store. I can't tell you how glad I am that you chose to do that. Because I also noticed when you first slipped it into your purse. Paige: Not to be competitive, but I think my glad beats your glad. Man: Understand we'd be having a different conversation right now.
legaleagle48 over 13 years ago
And thus ends this week’s Very Special Episode of Foxtrot.
(Seriously, though – they really thought they’d get away with it?)
rayannina over 13 years ago
And afterward, Paige soundly whacked her friend with her purse for even suggesting shoplifting.
At least, that’s what I hope happened.
skeeterhawk over 13 years ago
Gotta love those kids on the escalators, and the one staring at them in the last panel.
lewisbower over 13 years ago
What a nice security man
afeeney over 13 years ago
Agree, Lewreader. He made sure that the lesson REALLY will stick.
kab2rb over 13 years ago
Paige your a smart girl and taught your friend a great lesson.
Yukoneric over 13 years ago
I used to be able to go to the store with a dollar and get pants, a shirt, shoes and socks. Now, they have those cameras everywhere.
newworldmozart over 13 years ago
I didn’t think that Paige’s friend had it in her to walk the talk. They are always the first ones to pass out. @ Yukoneric: face palm.
mrgromit over 13 years ago
In most states, he could have arrested her as soon as she’d concealed it.
But realistically, they very rarely stop shoplifters anymore.
natashalee over 13 years ago
Don’t shoplift in southeastern Michigan or you”ll be doing community service for many hours!
albertonencioni over 13 years ago
MrGromit :”In most states, he could have arrested her as soon as she’d concealed it.” Why? You must pay before exit and not conceal the goods from the cashier, but you are not obliged to hold the merchandise in sight while you are moving INSIDE the shop. I might choose to put a CD in my pocket in order to have both hands free to choose a second CD: the important thing is that at the end I pay BOTH..
riley05 over 13 years ago
If Paige had been really slick, she’d have slipped two copies of the CD into her purse, and then returned one to the shelf.
Would have satisfied the security guard, and she’d still have successfully stolen one.
Or so I’ve heard.
ellisaana Premium Member over 13 years ago
Really slick, or really dishonest?
Allison Nunn Premium Member over 13 years ago
I think the friend who tried to talk her into the shoplifting really learned her lesson (:anybody know CPR?”) As an aside my youngest and I many years ago were walking in a mall when four young people surrounded a clean cut matronly woman. She started screaming “I’ll put it back, I’ll put it all back” but was handcuffed all the same. A lesson learned by a four year old that she remembers quite clearly even over 20 years later.